Metro-North Railroad s Enterprise GIS Program: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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1 Metro-North Railroad s Enterprise GIS Program: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Xiaojing Wei, Alex Lu, and David Fogel GIS in Transit Conference Washington, D.C. September 2, 2015

2 Metro-North Railroad Three states, twelve county service area, 2,701 square miles. Five lines, three branches, 384 route miles, and 775 track miles. 1,072 bridges, 119 grade crossings, 77 substations. 124 stations, 1,258 railcars, 711 weekday departures carrying 284k customers. Full service commuter railroad with engineering responsibility for track, signals, power, structures, stations, and railcars. Metro-North Railroad 1

3 Business Case Use company-wide survey instrument to generate interest in GIS GIS Need % Respondents Describing a location (at least monthly) 90% Communicating a location (e.g. geocodes) to an outside entity 66% Locate a fixed asset in the field 62% Plot a map for sharing, reporting, etc. 34% Count features within a geographic area 62%-66% Metro-North Railroad 2

4 Trigger Events Identified GIS Needs Real-time incident management Post-event reconstruction Green s Farms Station Westport 1532 ( ) Real-time train location Emergency access to ROW Fire/EMS jurisdictions Milepost/catenary pole/ street address correlation Hurricane Sandy ( ) Real-time storm tracking Elevation of key rail assets Post-event insurance claims Mapping recovery efforts Flood proofing future design Hudson Line Milepost 31 Metro-North Railroad 3

5 Hudson Line: Water Level Route Kemeys Cove MP 29.7 Scarborough MP 29 Metro-North Railroad 4

6 Hudson Line: Water Level Route Sandy Surge MP 25 Metro-North Railroad 5

7 Early Action Inventory Existing Condition Hardware and Software Data Sources Past projects (e.g., Positive Train Control LiDAR) Publicly available Existing Systems Business Processes User base and skills Bridge Management System Grand Central Terminal (GCT ) Building Model Metro-North Railroad 6

8 Early Action Policies Human Capital: GIS/CAD as preferred skill in job qualifications Software: Push users towards GIS web viewers; limit desktops Procurement (Boilerplates): Require GIS deliverable in all capital projects, i.e. As-built and other drawings, database outputs (track defect measurement system) Data Security: 3 levels of GIS Data Data Hygiene: Check-in/check-out, quality control procedures, etc. Data Ownership and Update: Working with ongoing Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) effort Metro-North Railroad 7

9 Concept of Operations (ConOps) Study Goals and Objectives Meetings Support from senior management Loosely define user requirements Find possible use cases Data Inventory and Gap Analysis: Fishing expedition to discover more data and resources Business & Operational Processes: Institutionalization of GIS Straight Line Diagrams (SLD) Viewer Integrated Property Boundary GIS (Yardi) Plan Room Drawing Retrieval (CPRDRM) Visual train tracking replacement Ridership & Demographics Visualization Staffing: Who s doing what? Add new staff if nobody there! Metro-North Railroad 8

10 Marketing Portal: at a glance GIS resources webpage Open REST Services Directory Blasts: exec. level this is what GIS can do Infomercial Videos: like home shopping Roadshows: visit regular departmental meetings or set up special targeted sessions Ask Project Manager to Approve: when receiving data, always circle back to PM (more for education than for review) Early Products: use 3D visualization, heat maps, BigData, etc., and circulate example map to generate interest Metro-North Railroad 9

11 Employee Residences Early Map Products To estimate employee commute time Employee Residences Metro-North Railroad 10

12 Early Map Products Station Catchment Mail & Ride by Zip Codes to track parking demand at specific station Station Catchment Metro-North Railroad 11

13 Early Map Products MudSpot to track weekly Mudspot maintenance Mudspots Metro-North Railroad 12

14 Early Map Products Third Rail Burner showing locations of third Rail brackets burning issue 3 rd Rail Burners Metro-North Railroad 13

15 Enterprise GIS Web Viewers Map railroad features on web application to improve data access Publicly available GIS layers overlaid with railroad locations Census Demographics Environmental features FEMA flood information; Public and Quasi-Public facilities, etc. Link existing PDF maps into viewer as repository of drawings Signal block plans, Power sectionalizing diagrams, Val maps, etc. Avoids labor intensive Georeferencing for now Google Maps and Street View Integration at critical points Metro-North Railroad 14

16 Enterprise GIS Architecture ESRI ArcGIS for Server 10.2 with Web Adaptor Access via web viewers and REST services (intranet only) File geodatabase on server Migrating to Oracle Effectively read-only for now Power users on Desktops GIS Manager is gatekeeper Mobile access via tablets with AirWatch software Inter-agency (MTA, LIRR, NYCT) access via selected opening in the firewall Metro-North Railroad 15

17 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers Enterprise GIS 16

18 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers Environmental Features 17

19 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers U.S. Census Demographics 18

20 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers Public Facilities 19

21 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers Track Sensor Data 20

22 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers West of Hudson Signal Project 21

23 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers Topographical Contours 22

24 Metro-North Enterprise GIS Web Viewers Limited English Proficiency 23

25 Metro-North EGIS: Asset Locations Enterprise GIS 24

26 Charts, Plans, Val Maps, and Power Diagram Metro-North Railroad 25

27 Metro-North EGIS Tools: Search Metro-North Railroad 26

28 Enterprise GIS Tools: Measure Distance Metro-North Railroad 27

29 Enterprise GIS Tools: Google Street View 28

30 Enterprise GIS Base Map Choices 29

31 EGIS Next Steps Migration Issues ArcGIS 10.2 to 10.3 Dev/Prod Resiliency Implement Five Baseline Applications GIS Staffing Roles SLD Engineer Licensed Surveyor Drawing Archivist/CAD GIS App Developer Demographer In House Training Other Applications GIS Viewer for Security Management Sustainability Initiative - Green GIS GIS Viewer for Emergency Management Application Metro-North Railroad 30

32 Questions? Data Request? Ms. Xiaojing Wei, GISP GIS Manager MTA Metro-North Railroad 420 Lexington Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, N.Y or Alex Lu Metro-North Railroad 31

33 Metro-North Railroad s Enterprise GIS Program: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow EXTRA CONOPS SLIDES Xiaojing Wei, Alex Lu, and David Fogel GIS in Transit Conference Washington, D.C. September 2, 2015

34 Straight Line Diagrams Plot GPS coordinates, milepost, locations on a straight line diagram (SLD) like track chart Overlay data on marked-up track chart: slow orders, outages, tonnages, track geometry, signal/power/buried utility, etc. Replaces current laborious process of producing track charts Enables interdisciplinary information & intelligence sharing Improved capability & speed in identifying defects Track Chart Surfacing History Vastly improve field data accessibility over paper Metro-North Railroad 33 Track Geometry

35 Property Management GIS Integration Provide accurate, surveyed property lines of Metro-North rights of way, yards, leases, etc. Integrate with proprietary tenant management system Supports capital project planning, asset maintenance, operations, and emergency management Support entry permit process Support rent collection process and lease requests from utilities Metro-North Railroad 34

36 Virtual Train Tracking System Replacement Display live train locations in near real-time on a diagrammatic map, line chart, as a colorized delay diagram, and allowing drill-downs into additional and historical data Display train movements relative to location features & infrastructure Delay visualization on mobile devices More accurate prediction of delays Better data for trainmasters making real-time assignments due to tight integration with crew and consist management systems Metro-North Railroad 35

37 Plan Room Drawing Retrieval Mapper Recently scanned 100,000+ as-built drawings to PDF Allow user to visually look for drawings by map self service drawing retrieval Geo-reference and improve indices by keyword/discipline Strikes balance between fully digitizing versus text-based location descriptions only Allows archivist to focus on minority of exception cases Metro-North Railroad 36

38 Ridership & Demographics GIS Visualization Construct a database to capture, house, and display maps of automated and manually collected data sources: Ridership, loads, capacity, train counts, on/offs, demographics, and surveys New computerized database platform: Migrating existing data from mainframe Store, process, and query automatically collected data (ticket sales, load weigh sensor/automated passenger counter (APC), automated station counts, etc.) Supports demand/revenue forecasts, contingency planning, outage assessment, risk assessment, etc. Metro-North Railroad 37